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Achmed Jones posted:ah ok cool. i bet i could get that station too then sometimes, im between slo and you 
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Smythe posted:los angeles
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FCKGW posted:I posted this elsewhere in YOSPOS but I use something called DizqueTV to create a fake TV tuner in Plex with guide data. You can then create "channels" for whatever media you want and create your own custom TV channels. this owns. also so does the sponsorblock thing for apple tv. i specifically did not watch youtube on my tv because of all that baked in nonsense. now i can at least watch my subbed channels. searching for anyhting is still rear end imo
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Smythe posted:another interesting radio thing that happened to me is i was running some stage monitors a while ago right. so i had this loooong piece of unshielded speaker zip wire running from the phones out of a mixing board to a lovely amp that went to 2 speakers on stage right. anyways the speakers would pick up a weird, subtle ratio station despite no antenna being attached. i think this was due to the huge strand of wire just picking it up or something. it was so weird. you could only hear it if you were really close to the speaker. it was like 300 feet over 2 stories. pretty neat and a little spooky. it sounds like it because thats exactly what happened man lol. an unshielded cable is basically an antenna, and the longer it is the better the reception
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every time i see 'Los Angeles' on a street sign I have to say it in the exene voice
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuLllNyfiHs runner up
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Smythe posted:another interesting radio thing that happened to me is i was running some stage monitors a while ago right. so i had this loooong piece of unshielded speaker zip wire running from the phones out of a mixing board to a lovely amp that went to 2 speakers on stage right. anyways the speakers would pick up a weird, subtle ratio station despite no antenna being attached. i think this was due to the huge strand of wire just picking it up or something. it was so weird. you could only hear it if you were really close to the speaker. it was like 300 feet over 2 stories. pretty neat and a little spooky. you can basically listen to am directly on a speaker without a "radio receiver" if you happen to have an (accidentally) well tuned antenna. i had a client whose phones started playing a manderin language am station one day because one of their kids broke a phone jack in such a way that it turned the entire POTS loop in the house into an antenna. that was loving wild to troubleshoot
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I remember my mind being blown as a kid when I once set up my SNES but forgot to plug in the RF aerial cable into the TV and I could still see the game (albeit very very faintly and full of static) because the cable was right next to the input jack. Unless I’ve invented this memory in which case never mind.
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infernal machines posted:i had a client whose phones started playing a manderin language am station one day because one of their kids broke a phone jack in such a way that it turned the entire POTS loop in the house into an antenna. that was loving wild to troubleshoot lmao that loving owns. ngl i'm not sure i would have even considered that as a plausible possible cause e: for context i don't think i've personally seen a POTS setup that wasn't run with at the very least cat 3. guess at&t/bell atlantic had their poo poo together, but then again i grew up like 2 towns over from bell labs Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Jul 4, 2022 |
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Smythe posted:another interesting radio thing that happened to me is i was running some stage monitors a while ago right. so i had this loooong piece of unshielded speaker zip wire running from the phones out of a mixing board to a lovely amp that went to 2 speakers on stage right. anyways the speakers would pick up a weird, subtle ratio station despite no antenna being attached. i think this was due to the huge strand of wire just picking it up or something. it was so weird. you could only hear it if you were really close to the speaker. it was like 300 feet over 2 stories. pretty neat and a little spooky. this used to happen to me on gigs in my hometown, something unshielded in my setup would pick up the local talk radio station and it would come through my amp.
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you can do it on purpose too. crystal AM radios are a fun sub-sub-sub-hobby but they can only drive super high impedance headphones at flea power. a cool way to make them actually listenable is to get a little five watt tabletop guitar amp and feed the radio into the input. guitar amps are really sensitive to small signals and have like 9000 db of amplification so they're a perfect match
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cool posts thanks all!
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Smythe posted:cool posts thanks all!
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FMguru posted:youre welcome smythe happy 4th my friend
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Beeftweeter posted:lmao that loving owns. ngl i'm not sure i would have even considered that as a plausible possible cause it was not my first or even my second thought when troubleshooting but i got there eventually
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need to obtain an OG powerbook g3 someday those things were beasts
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i've got one and a toilet seat ibook. they are hefty as gently caress by modern standards
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I miss my clamshell ibook. a real icon
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I think nostalgia goggles make people forget that was like 4-10 grand of gear msrp back in the day. I remember being excited I could get a powermac g4 for less than 2 grand
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this is the poo poo i looked at in magazines, wishing i could have. of course it was expensive as gently caress
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qirex posted:I think nostalgia goggles make people forget that was like 4-10 grand of gear msrp back in the day. I remember being excited I could get a powermac g4 for less than 2 grand e: each of those 15" flat panels was $1100 when introduced, so the pair of them would cost you $3750 in todaybux FMguru fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Jul 5, 2022 |
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that was the era where you had to remind people to get the minimum ram from apple and fill it out later with aftermarket dimms, because a) that was something you could actually do with macs and b) apple’s markup was insane
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FMguru posted:also need to take those prices from Back In The Day and raise them about 70% to account for inflation (between 2000 and 2022) i wanted to see how much the first mac i bought myself (as opposed to parents or dumpster dives) would be today i remember this was on feb 1 2003 because a space shuttle fell apart that morning. bought an imac g4 configured as follows base model M8535LL/A (15" 800 mhz g4 with superdrive, M9105LL/A came out three goddamn days later for $600 less), $1799 bto: +M7600LL/D (802.11b airport card), $100 + M7812LL/B, applecare, $150 + 256 mb ddr, $100 total inflation since 2/1/03: 59.64% comes out to $3432.26 and excludes tax plus a new hdd 
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qirex posted:I think nostalgia goggles make people forget that was like 4-10 grand of gear msrp back in the day. I remember being excited I could get a powermac g4 for less than 2 grand
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Chris Knight posted:I spent upward of 4 grand on my Power Tower 180, and was making about $35K/year at that point. kept the order slip for a good long time after to remind me to never spend that much on a computer again lol
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my parents got 0% financing for our first computer from my dad's job. imagine a company loaning you the 2022 equivalent of $12,800 for a computer lol
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for us it was an ibm from micro center and in today-dollars it was easily $4k. my dad made that machine last for 11 years, all told, so he got his money's worth it was a solid word processor and eventually email machine. since it lasted so long, used memory became dirt cheap, so when it went to recycling it had maxed ram and cpu
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i didn't get my first pc until 1998, which i paid for with my own money working as a line cook because there was no way my parents could afford one at the time. before that i used the (admittedly pretty good) computer lab at my school and a used atari xegs with no disk drive that my parents paid like $50 for. i'd write my programs out on looseleaf to save them for later.
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First family computer my dad assembled from pc club parts. Rip pc club
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first compy was a tandy 286 ibm clone that my dad had. pa would copy 5.25 floppies of games like leisure suit larry and flight simulator from people at work and bring them home.
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we got a mac LC III after much nagging of our parents. they even splurged for the colossal 160MB hard disk
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i just found an article that says my iphone 8 will be able to get ios 16. this makes me happy cause i don't want to buy another iphone until they use usb-c
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Achmed Jones posted:i just found an article that says my iphone 8 will be able to get ios 16. this makes me happy cause i don't want to buy another iphone until they use usb-c i hope the new iphones keep lightning for at least one more version cuz i A) need to upgrade mine and B) have a real expensive flir camera that uses lightning
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They should keep the lightning plug at the bottom and add usb-c to the other end of the phone so you could just flip it around. Imagine, it could even let you use wired headphones and all the other weird peripherals while it’s plugged into a charger.
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